cgore

But then, what do I know, I am sure that you must know vastly more than I do, seeing as to how as a Christian I must advocate against education now. I should write letters to all of the universities I have attended, asking them to please revoke my diplomas on the basis of my religious freedom.

http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2013/04/mother-teresa...

What is the most telling is the response to Hitchens from the order she founded, on hearing about his death.

Despite Hitchens' vicious attacks on Mother Teresa over the years, the saint's order in India, Missionaries of Charity, said that it would offer prayers for the renowned atheist upon hearing of his passing late Thursday night at the age of 62, after a battle with cancer.

“We will pray for him and for his family,” spokeswoman for the order Sister Christie told Agence France-Presse.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-atheist-vs-the-saint-w...

EDIT: just tried it. The following works:

    #include <stdio.h>
    int main(void)
    {
        int array[100];
        int *shifted_array = array - 1980;
        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++)
            array[i] = i;
        for (int j = 1980; j < 2014; j++)
            printf("shifted_array[%d] = %d\n", j, shifted_array[j]);
        return 0;
    }

Most commonly you'll actually want to go positive, and have an array going from a[1970] to a[2013] or something similar.

Ferriss does that stuff because he wanted to sell books as much as possible. He even chose the name of the book by a/b testing. That stuff is line noise, and I am sure he knows that it is, but it sells millions more copies because of it.

So I would say try the reading approach I mentioned. There is a lot of filler, but there is a lot of good content. I would say the most useful thing is the dreamline idea, it a good approach to goal definition, a lot better than any sort of bucket list and such. I do it somewhat differently than he outlines in the book, but I still do it every month, and it has helped me accomplish a lot more.

[And from your Jahreslisten: the Bible.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_of_the_Gods_Wilderness

What you are referencing is the "Liberal Christianity" of the 1800's, but it is generally an unpopular set of views. Wikipedia's page is a bit short but a useful overview of the differences:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity

If you have ever run into a Christian who just assumed you were lying when you told them that you were an atheist, this is why they thought that. You don't seem insane, so they are left with the assumption that you must be a liar. When in truth, you just choose to think about something else instead: politics, your job, some video game, whatever.

For example, My dad was Charles Marvin Gore. His mother's father was Charles Maltbie. His father's father was Marvin Gore.

I don't think I ever saw the two modes combined though, so no example of a Charles Marvin Maltbie Gore. Although that is just in my family. It might have happened in others.

Take a look at the work of John Koza. His systems were used to automatically generate electrical circuits:

http://www.genetic-programming.com/johnkoza.html

I looked at his stuff a lot when I was trying to pick my path for my MS thesis. I ended up going down a completely different route though.